Lynn Babcock, MD, MS, FAAP

Associate Division Director for Research, Division of Emergency Medicine
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

lynn.babcock@cchmc.org
Board Certified

About

Biography

I’m a board-certified pediatric emergency medicine physician with extensive clinical experience in the rapid assimilation of knowledge and application of clinical skills required during the initial presentation of critically ill and injured children. My passions are focused on generating evidence on emergent stratification and treatment of children and mentoring the next generation of academic pediatric emergency medicine physicians.

Through a continual stream of external funding during my career, I have worked to both advance the care of acutely injured children and implement strategies to prevent these injuries. My former amateur athletic pursuits as a figure skater and my family's involvement in myriad competitive sports spurred my research focus of interest in traumatic brain injuries. My goal is to improve the patient-centered outcomes of these children by quantifying the extent of damage through the use of clinical findings and biomarkers and implementing evidence-based treatment strategies.

My experience has allowed me to help train the next generation of physicians at the bedside and in our translational research lab. At Cincinnati Children’s, I play an integral role on the Emergency Medicine Research Committee and the Prehospital Care Committee, and I am co-director of the Acute Care Research Core of the Cincinnati Academic Health Center's Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training. Since its inception in 2001, I have held numerous leadership positions in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network, a national research network, and currently serve as the HOMERUN nodal primary investigator, leading the HOMERUN node, comprised of Cincinnati Children’s, St. Louis Children’s and Children’s Wisconsin.

Services and Specialties

Interests

Pediatric injury; traumatic brain injury; prehospital care

Research Areas

Emergency Medicine

Publications

Emergency Medical Services and Police Utilization for Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Concerns Within a Large Hospital System. Hartwell, V; Riney, L; Cheetham, A; Pomerantz, WJ; Lee, SH; Bensman, R; Schwartz, H; Zhang, Y; Babcock, L. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2025; 41:104-108.

Prehospital Restraint Use in Pediatric Patients With Mental and Behavioral Health Emergencies. Cummings, C; Babcock, L; Zhang, Y; Lee, SH; Schwartz, H; Semenova, O; Pomerantz, WJ. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2025; 41:30-36.

Emergency Department Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Patients Transported by Emergency Medical Services and Police: Trends and Interventions. Cheetham, A; Babcock, L; Hartwell, V; Schwartz, H; Bensman, R; Lee, SH; Riney, L; Semenova, O; Zhang, Y; Pomerantz, WJ. Academic Pediatrics. 2024; 24:1001-1009.

Stratification of risk for emergent intracranial abnormalities in children with headaches: a Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) study protocol. Tsze, DS; Kuppermann, N; Casper, TC; Barney, BJ; Richer, LP; Liberman, DB; Okada, PJ; Morris, CR; Myers, SR; Soung, JK; Thomas, DG; Grupp-Phelan, JM; Johnson, TJ; Dayan, PS. BMJ Open. 2023; 13:e079040.

Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial of SMART: An EHealth Intervention for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Wade, SL; Sidol, C; Babcock, L; Schmidt, M; Kurowski, B; Cassedy, A; Zhang, N. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2023; 48:241-253.

Television-Related Head Injuries in Children: A Secondary Analysis of a Large Cohort Study of Head-Injured Children in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Lichenstein, R; Monroe, D; Quayle, KS; Miskin, M; Cooper, A; Gerardi, MJ; Callahan, JM; Dayan, PS; Holmes, JF; Kuppermann, N; Brown, J; Schalick, W; Singh, T; Wright, J. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2022; 38:326-331.

Validation of the Pediatric Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score and Evaluation of Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock Definitions in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Balamuth, F; Scott, HF; Weiss, SL; Webb, M; Chamberlain, JM; Bajaj, L; Depinet, H; Grundmeier, RW; Campos, D; Deakyne Davies, SJ; Simon, NJ; Cook, LJ; Alpern, ER. JAMA pediatrics. 2022; 176:672-678.

Usage Patterns of an mHealth Symptom Monitoring App Among Adolescents With Acute Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries. Schmidt, M; Babcock, L; Kurowski, BG; Cassedy, A; Sidol, C; Wade, SL. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 2022; 37:134-143.

Racial/Ethnic Differences in ED Opioid Prescriptions for Long Bone Fractures: Trends Over Time. Goyal, MK; Drendel, AL; Chamberlain, JM; Wheeler, J; Olsen, C; Grundmeier, RW; Cook, L; Bajaj, L; Babcock, L; Zorc, JJ; Johnson, T; Alpern, ER. Pediatrics. 2021; 148:e2021052481.

Comparison of children receiving emergent sepsis care by mode of arrival. Lloyd, J; Depinet, H; Zhang, Y; Semenova, O; Meinzen-Derr, J; Babcock, L. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2021; 47:217-222.

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